ROBINSON: Ukraine faces a test from within

6:56 PM,
Mar. 10, 2014

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EUGENE ROBINSON

When the new Ukrainian prime minister visits the White House this week, President Obama should offer continued support - but also ask pointedly why several far-right ultra-nationalists have such prominent roles in Ukraine's new government.

I don't know of any reason to doubt Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's commitment to democracy and pluralism. The same cannot be said for some other members of the provisional regime that is trying to reverse Russia's grab of the Crimean Peninsula.

Oleksandr Sych, one of three vice prime ministers, is a member of the controversial Svoboda party, ...